Market Day and other things

The weather is warm again, but ok and there has been a breeze.  Hard work continues.  Yesterday the bananas (again!) had to be sorted to find the ripe ones for market.  There are lots and lots of greeen ones.  There ended up being only one box of yellow and 4 very green boxes made ready.  The remainder of the afternoon was taken up with much cooking in various vans and the communal kitchen, as there was a pot luch dinner last night with some lighthearted trivia, etc.  Plenty of lovely food can be produced from small kitchens.  I used my Eco Pot to make pumpkin (yes there are some of those here too) risotto.  It was rather more like savoury rice when ready, but it did work ok.  I have some left for dinner tonight.

We had to get up again very early this morning.  Alarm went off at 5.05 to give us time to shower and have breakfast before helping to pack the ute for the market.  We had a good time, there were 5 of us at various times trying to sell a small number of banans and some pumpkin.  We managed to sell all the yellow ones and a few green by about 10.15.  We then packed up and as we had our car were able to have some refreshments at the market, and also go with the Jones to book a night a El Questro for our last weekend here.  We wandered around a few shops and looked at some aboriginal art for a while, followed by a drive around parts of town.

We called in at the Bethel community to meet up with Esther and John (from Korea) who we'd met last Sunday and to purchase the Shedley book "Black and White Together" which we are looking forward to reading.  In fact we also have a book now to read on the history of HCJB.  Bethel is a community for aboriginal people which is drug and alcohol free.  Esther and John live in a very simple house, which I think they partly share with others.  This place is right next door to the Hidden Valley caravan park which we had previously stayed in, and right beneath the hills of the mini bungles - Mirimar Nat Park.

I am now here finishing off looking at computer things while Roger has gone off with some of the men to the local speedway.  They were all looking as though they would enjoy themselves.  I'll have leftovers soon.

It was pleasant to walk around the  front of the site here before sunset to take some photos of the boab trees at the front of the property.  I also notice that there are small green mangos on some of the trees near the caravans.  I think it would be rather enjoyable to eat them here later, however that will also be in the hot wet season start.

We were hoping that Peter would arrive today, but unfortunately he could not get on the flight from Brisbane to Darwin.  He plans to try tomorrow.